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Donald Trump makes top Republican fear environmental future
By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst
2 January 2017
Image caption "I worry terribly for the future of my family and families round the world"
A leading US Republican says she fears for the future of her seven grandchildren with Donald Trump in the White House.
Christine Todd Whitman, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under George W Bush, accused Mr Trump of ignoring compelling science.
And she warned that his threat to scrap climate protection policies puts the world's future at risk.
Trump supporters say rules on climate and energy are stifling business.
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Details of Mr Trump's climate policy are not yet clear, but his team have talked about boosting coal, opening new oil pipelines, and allowing mining on public wilderness or drilling in the Arctic.
On the political side, they have suggested quitting the global climate deal, scrapping President Obama's clean power plan, and dismantling the US energy department along with the EPA itself.
Trump card
Ms Todd Whitman was interviewed on Trump's likely policies for a documentary - Climate Change: the Trump Card - which airs on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on Tuesday.
She said: "I find it very worrisome that there seems to be a disdain for the science on protecting the environment.
"I worry terribly for the future of my family and families round the world because Mother Nature has never observed geopolitical boundaries and what one country does really does affect another country.
"To walk away from something where you have 97% of scientists saying this is occurring and people have an impact on it it's gotten to the point where we've got to try to slow it down if we're going to survive it."
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Mr Trump's picks for Cabinet posts have alarmed scientists. ..........................................
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Donald Trump makes top Republican fear environmental future (Original Post)
riversedge
Jan 2017
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Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)1. Here's the reality...
Trump, his consorts, and his followers don't give one rats ass about the environment. They will twist themselves into pretzels publicly to try to look like "climate deniers", because somehow that's more palatable to the masses, but they're not even that. They know full well that we are screwed environmentally but in their mind that doesn't matter because they won't be here. Their goal is to make as much money as they can, while they can, the people of the world be damned.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)2. There's a very clear choice
And republicans have to decide whether they'd rather take a profit today or poison their children tomorrow.